Software Engineer

at  Microsoft

How would you like to directly affect the lives of billions of humans? Microsoft Developer Center Norway is growing. We are looking for developers with a strong passion for building reliable services to be used on a global scale. Come join our team!

WHO WE ARE

Microsoft Developer Center Norway (MDCN), with offices in Oslo, Trondheim and Tromsø, is part of the Experiences & Devices group within Microsoft. We work on building the backend service for Copilot, integrating and building intelligent experiences across Office 365 via cloud services such as Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, Skype and Microsoft Teams. Their implementation ranks among the world’s largest and most cutting-edge distributed systems spanning hundreds of data centers around the world. Our products are used by most Fortune 500 enterprises, key government organizations, thousands of non-profits and 100s of millions of consumers across the world.
To deliver on our mission to empower people and organizations to achieve more, we need to create scalable and reliable services and are seeking a skilled back-end developer. We can offer an agile development environment in Oslo with diverse skills in algorithms and data structures, big data, data science, machine learning and search technology to mention a few. The position is full-time and based in our Oslo office.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience developing backend or distributed services

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Inclusive, collaborative and with a growth-mindset approach.
• Strong technical problem-solving skills.
• Experience in distributed systems.
• Passion about high performant services, high availability, reliability and consistency.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• You will work as a Microsoft Software Engineer in Oslo with some of the largest and most scalable services in the world with non-negotiable focus on performance, availability, reliability and consistency.
• You will work in a collaborative environment, with local and remote partners, to turn requirements into simple, elegant, and optimal solutions at large scale.
• You will be responsible for design, implementation, testing, rollout and running software services.
• You will be developing clean and effective code by allowing refactoring when needed and ensuring your code base incl. tests are ready for change.
• You will be part of team discussions on architectural design and solutions continuously looking for improvements.
• You will ship your code to thousands of machines serving millions of users around the world.

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter